Charles Pike is heir to a brewery fortune but spends a year in the Amazon researching snakes. Returning on a transatlantic crossing, he lands in the crosshairs of three card sharps; one of them, Jean, falls in love with him. Their brief love affair ends when Pike's bodyguard discovers her true profession. Or does it? Received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Story. Entered 1994 into the National Film Registry.

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